I loved my ipad1, which I bought right after it came out, but last fall finally got tired of it freezing if I did anything other than read email. It really hates Facebook (good taste or just too many photos) and the Washington Post (it wontveven try to open that). I bought an iPad 3 in November, and unlike ipad1, I don’t update it. I updated ipad1 every time apple told me an update was available and I’m going to ignore those updates now.
If they would give me a way to go back to the original operating system I think it would work again. I love my iPad, but it’s an expensive toy if it only works two or three years.